Princess Elizabeth Shooting Lee Enfields

[British Mandarin]

Do we have any idea of who might be in the first picture?

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[Mk VII]

No we don't, so far. It's one of those 'novelty' pictures that picture editors use to fill the paper on a slow news day. "Ooh, look here's women doing something unlady-like"

[mr.e moose]

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam...ge-gallery.jpg

I looks so close I would have to say yes.

[Surpmil]

No, it's not Princess Elizabeth, and if it was her companion would probably be wearing something more suitable for a rifle range, that did not upstage the Princess. That sounds silly to us these days, but those were and probably still are some of the unwritten rules of protocol.

Whoever they were, they were a couple of game "gels"; I would have liked to have met them!

Reminds me of an article in the NRA Journal where a "lady shooter" wrote about her experiences. When she first told her parents she was going to shoot at Bisley her mother said in some alarm, "Bisley dear? With all those MEN?" Her father laconically, "Right, better take a hat pin".

It was a good story anyway!

[muffett.2008]

I think you will find it is Liz in both pic's.
She was quite a markswoman, took her first stag at 16, learned to shoot rats and sparrows with her mother on the Estates.
The well dressed lady I think was also well born, a Countess or something, been a long time since I saw the original, may have been a Mountbatten, but these pics used to circulate back in the '50's and were regularly seen here in OZ, where we are not so anti gun.

Try googleing her and shooting, you could be surprised.

[British Mandarin]

Hi muffett,

I have also read on other forums that Princess Elizabeth shot stags before, but I could not find any source to back that up.

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

Sometimes it's good to be Queen.

[RobD]

"Do all British spotters wear fur collars?"
Yes, unfortunately, they do. I can't get used to it. Bisley is as camp as Christmas.

[muffett.2008]

Here's one of Liz, Margaret and Mom in 1946, I think Louie Mountbatten was bound for Malaya or there abouts then, so the Boss and family were probably touring to.Attachment 64109

[British Mandarin]

It was the South Africa tour on the royal yacht HMS Vanguard. (The Royal Navy's last battleship)